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How The Bubonic Plague Actually Saved Europe In The 14th Century (Finance)
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| 5-15-2013
| Sam Ro
Posted on 05/15/2013 11:28:58 AM PDT by blam
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In my anthropology studies, I learned that labor was almost unaffordable after the plague. The survivors of the plague had inherited so much from all the relatives that died that they didn't need to work.
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posted on
05/15/2013 11:28:58 AM PDT
by
blam
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
05/15/2013 11:29:34 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sen Ted Cruz, Sen Mike Lee, and Sen Rand Paul are my adoptive Senators)
To: blam
...one step further...
modern economic crisis...
let’s start WWIII...(or other mass mortality devices)
Don’t push off this thought as conspiracy thinking. Too many elites love this idea.
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posted on
05/15/2013 11:36:13 AM PDT
by
ThomasMore
(Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
To: blam
Bird flu will save us all.
Well, not all.
To: blam
The real headline should be:
"Europe's finances so bad that Black Death seems a viable solution."
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posted on
05/15/2013 11:49:17 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
To: blam
Good times unless you’re one of the ones on the cart.
To: SIDENET
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05/15/2013 11:51:23 AM PDT
by
blam
To: ThomasMore
“lets start WWIII...(or other mass mortality devices)
Dont push off this thought as conspiracy thinking. Too many elites love this idea.”
I recently had dinner with a liberal doctor. He’s very concerned about over population. He related a conversation with another doctor who said, “What we really need is another Black Death.” I’d put this off to idiots talking, but these guys have the capability of being the next Bond villain. How many really rich people out there might finance just such apocalyptic egos who want to “save the Earth” by lowering the population? Too bad there aren’t real life James Bond’s.
To: Tijeras_Slim
Good times unless youre one of the ones on the cart.Or the one being carried out by this guy:
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posted on
05/15/2013 12:02:12 PM PDT
by
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
To: blam
Just look at all the laws the aristocracy passed in an attempt to keep their peasants from moving for higher wages.
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posted on
05/15/2013 12:08:18 PM PDT
by
C19fan
To: Gen.Blather
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05/15/2013 12:10:31 PM PDT
by
DuncanWaring
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posted on
05/15/2013 12:11:00 PM PDT
by
DJ MacWoW
(My faith and politics cannot be separated)
To: blam
Actually this is no big revelation. It is generally recognized by historians that the plague had the dubious benefit of leaving the survivers with more wealth and opportunities due to the demographic vacuum it created in its wake.
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05/15/2013 12:16:02 PM PDT
by
SpaceBar
To: ThomasMore
WW II got us out of the Great Depression.
“Problem” now ifs that economically we aren’t anywhere near what was experienced in this article or even in the Great Depression. The current recovery is slow and bumpy but private business (not government) is doing better.
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05/15/2013 12:21:36 PM PDT
by
Wyatt's Torch
(I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
To: blam
What had been keeping the labor market in check throughout the European Middle Ages were the Crusades. To oversimplify the picture, every generation or so starting around 1095, perhaps 100,000 Crusaders were sent off to the Holy Land, where most of them either died or stayed (and then died), allowing feudal Europe to perpetuate itself. After the Black Death, Europe is never again overpopulated, except in one demographic: by the 1600s, there were too many nobility to allow them all to be landed gentry, which is why so many of them migrate to the Americas.
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05/15/2013 12:23:31 PM PDT
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chajin
("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
To: ClearCase_guy
"Bird flu will save us all. Well, not all."
Just those that don't flock together.
To: Gen.Blather
If you get deep into the bowels of libtard thought, you will find more than a few who will point out that the earth's population was near a stable half billion people for multiple millenniums.
It was only with the advent of the industrial revolution (i.e. capitalism) that the earth became capable of supporting far more.
A few libtards will even grudgingly acknowledge that technological advances which arose totally as an unconnected coincidence to capitalism means the earth is capable of supporting a much larger population now, maybe even as many as four billion.
Isn't that so enlightened of them?
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05/15/2013 12:38:47 PM PDT
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Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: Tijeras_Slim
“BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!” “clang”
“BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!” “clang”
“BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!” “clang”
To: Tijeras_Slim
“BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!” “clang”
“BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!” “clang”
“BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!” “clang”
To: ThomasMore
“lets start WWIII...(or other mass mortality devices)”
Yeh like the H9N7 that just happened to escape the lab in China and suddenly we are not hearing anymore reports about it. Like it fell off the cliff.
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posted on
05/15/2013 12:44:10 PM PDT
by
Georgia Girl 2
(The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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